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Melancholic, political, brooding: Balbina with new music
Singer Balbina makes music beyond genre boundaries. photo
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She is considered the German Björk, a pop hope and a music activist against streaming services: Balbina is versatile. The first single from their new album is now out.
She tours with Herbert Grönemeyer, appears in the Elbphilharmonie, is politically committed to musicians – and is now releasing new music: a new one is being released today Single by the singer Balbina.
The song with the title “The feeling is dead” is a homage to digital apathy, says the 40-year-old in an interview with dpa. “Everything I observe, write, formulate and stage is an attempt to capture the present,” she emphasizes.
From February onwards, eight songs will be released every month until their fifth album “Infinity Tunes – Sounds of Infinity” is released in the fall. “Often we live as if we were immortal, we plan years in advance and don’t even realize how beautiful the sunset is,” says Balbina. Humans are transitory, only their memories seem infinite, she explains. “Perhaps infinity is a memory that remains.”
The artist advocates for the rights of music creators. She was recently involved in an initiative for fairer pay for artists by the major streaming platforms. Ultimately, the European Parliament spoke out in favor of stricter rules on remuneration. However, the resolution is not legally binding; The EU Commission would have to introduce a concrete legal text.
Performances with Grönemeyer and Babelsberg Film Orchestra
Balbina Monika Jagielska was born in Warsaw and moved to Berlin with her family as a child. “The tendency towards exaggerated melancholy, wallowing in a cozy sadness, that’s definitely my trademark and probably something very Polish,” she says.
Maybe that’s exactly what makes the singer so diverse. She is considered a pop hope, but was also part of the rap scene; She went on tour with the musician duo Die Atzen and Herbert Grönemeyer and played with the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg. Stylistically, she is sometimes compared to the Icelandic singer Björk.
She doesn’t care at all about genre boundaries: “I think in German-speaking countries a lot of people think in boxes in order to clearly define content. Art actually thrives on the freedom to create.”